He kept both billets-doux in his pocket. From LearnThat.org.
Is Christophe going to carry your billets-doux for you?. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
Nothing but billets-doux were found in his writing-case. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Below, at 'billets-doux,' glances hither and yon; at 'shower,' steps backwards; at 'reward,' lowers head as though containing agitation. From Wordnik.com. [Sotoba Komachi] Reference
"He gets billets-doux every hour of the blessed day.". From Wordnik.com. [Simon Called Peter] Reference
A small pile of billets-doux lay upon a silver salver. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
"He has his successes, but all the billets-doux do not go one way.". From Wordnik.com. [Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France] Reference
The billets-doux are unquestionably authentic, but the statement is inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
Mary dropped hers down into the usual deposit of women for bank-notes and billets-doux. From Wordnik.com. [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference
But, as I found out afterwards, I had made a terrible mistake with the two billets-doux. From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
Or, at least, juvenile billets-doux between a spin doctor and a disgraced blogger to this effect. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
/billets-doux/keep him employed on his way to carry writs to the bailiffs and petitions to the Courts. From Wordnik.com. [Le Colonel Chabert] Reference
How should you hope to rank with the minister of Love's pleasures, with the stealthy conveyer of billets-doux?. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
The gods and goddesses of Olympus had a messenger named Iris, who carried their billets-doux from star to star. From Wordnik.com. [The Cross of Berny] Reference
I dined in my own rooms, and spent the evening in looking over the various billets-doux, received during my sejour at Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
My weary head is fuller than a chest packed full of balance sheets and billets-doux, old verses, novels, locks of curly hair. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Belle-Île with a pleased laugh; and she went forthwith to the écritoire, and in ten minutes composed the tenderest of billets-doux. From Wordnik.com. [The Admirable Tinker Child of the World] Reference
Her corded trunk, heavier by another packet of billets-doux and a month's salary in advance, was soon carried up the stairs of some other house. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
He exchanged letters with his lover from Iowa, receiving his billets-doux at George Lynn’s address. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
A set of false teeth, two pair of hips, an eye, and a bundle of billets-doux from Mr. Windenough to my wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
Hervey, Lady M.W. Montague, (hers are but few -- some billets-doux in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
Nothing will be found in my drawers but some unanswered billets-doux. ". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself] Reference
Before another month has flown you will be inundated with billets-doux. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
His billets-doux of lisping lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons] Reference
What billets-doux, and clouded canes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
Here, a page fill'd with billets-doux. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
Who scribbles thousand billets-doux a day. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook for Latin Clubs] Reference
Glances are the first billets-doux of love. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
With tender billets-doux he lights the pire. From Wordnik.com. [The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems] Reference
She got to work at once with the billets-doux. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
A few billets-doux, invitations, and -- what's this?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Poetical Works] Reference
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